Podcast appearances and mentions of patricia harman

June 11th, 2021: In today's episode of Mountain Woman Radio I have the privilege to share with you my dear friend and author Patricia Harman.  Patricia is a kindred spirit, and I treasure her and her books. Be sure to follow Patricia here: Amazon Author Page Partricia's website Facebook 00:16:54 duration Download Transcription If you […] The post Podcast #229: Interview With Author Patricia Harman appeared first on Trayer Wilderness.

The legalization of marijuana will touch every line of insurance: property & casualty, commercial general liability, workers’ compensation, directors & officers liability, cyber, product liability, health and life insurance at the very least. Providing coverage to these new enterprises can be a new area of business for insurers, but it’s also a potential minefield. Employers are facing many questions and the answers are hazy at best. In this episode of CLECenter Experts, Patricia Harman, Editor-in-Chief of Claims Magazine, interviews Ian Stewart, Partner at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker to discuss the impact of legalized marijuana on the insurance industry. As a thank you to our listeners, a complimentary CLE program is offered which expands on the topic. For access to the complimentary CLE program click on the link below and enter the code given during the podcast: www.clecenter.com/freeCLE For more information on coverage interpretation visit www.nuco.com/fcs 

Midwife, author, and activist, Patricia Harman has done it all. After living in rural communes during the 60s and 70s, Patricia, or Patsy as her friends call her, moved to the east and settled in Virginia. While living in Virginia she was asked many times to help birth the babies in her community. She soon realized she had a love for helping women and went to school to officially become a nurse-midwife.  She has since spent the past thirty years caring for women as they go through the process and transformation that is childbirth. In an effort to document and memorialize some of her patients’ journeys, she began writing her first memoir, The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife’s Memoir. After her second memoir, she realized that she wanted to tell a different kind of story and began writing fiction. My conversation with Patricia was an amazing look into midwifery and modern healthcare practices for women, along with the ins and outs of the publishing world. Patsy definitely has a way with words and she paints a vivid picture of her life and her inspiration for starting her writing career. Listen in to gain insights on some amazing topics from the font of knowledge that is Patricia Harman.  Show Notes: [01:08] Thank you for listening and elevating the stories of our guests. [01:48] Learn more about Patricia “Patsy” Harman, my guest for this episode. [03:01] Patsy shares more about her backstory and midwifery. [05:43] We dig deeper into whether or not high-risk pregnancies can deliver with a midwife. [07:41] Midwives are more than medical caretakers. [08:42] Are more people opting for midwives for delivery?  [09:32] Why did Patsy transition to writing?  [13:38] Was Patsy’s first heroine based on her and her life?  [14:45] Learn more about the world of publishing and Patsy’s process for writing/publishing. [15:58] What did the publishing process feel like?  [19:34] Why is feedback a gift?  [22:27] What challenges did Patsy face in running her practice with her husband? [24:06] Always make sure your accountant is a CPA!  [25:05] Patsy’s tips for overcoming writer’s block. [27:22] What moments stand out for Patsy from her life’s journey? [31:20] Patsy shares her final bit of advice for our listeners. [32:18] Connect with Patsy and find her books. Links and Resources: Patricia Harman’s Website Patricia on Facebook Patricia’s Amazon Author Profile Episode’s Sponsor: Routledge

WBZ's Laurie Kirby speaks with midwife turned author Patricia Harman.

WBZ's Laurie Kirby speaks with midwife turned author Patricia Harman.

Patricia Harman spent most of the 60s and 70s living in rural communes in Washington State, Connecticut, Minnesota and West Virginia where she and her husband, along with a group of like-minded friends bought a farm. It was there, by accident, that she attended her first home birth. That had quite an impact; she became an RN, the first step in getting certified as a nurse-midwife, a career that has lasted more than 30 years. She subsequently re-invented herself, and became a best selling author. Patricia's written a pair of memoirs, historical/contemporary fiction and a children's book. Lots to talk about??? You bet!

There is a fair amount of whine in this podcast. Nicole can't get into Circe, Gayle is tired of sociopath husbands. Are all of the books victim porn or female revenge fantasies? There a lot of bad man books. Gayle's big book purge. We briefly revisit Gayle's love of inappropriate relationships. Also, all the books have floral covers. Books discussed in this podcast: https://amzn.to/2wbhlMJ (Circe) by Madeline Miller https://amzn.to/2OwKMQF (The Midwife of Hope River: A Novel of An American Midwife) by Patricia Harman https://amzn.to/2OujJpg (Every Other Weekend) by Zulema Renee Summerfield https://amzn.to/2B2OEHg (The Last Mrs. Parrish) by Liv Constantine https://amzn.to/2KZbeQY (Unraveling Oliver) by Liz Nugent https://amzn.to/2OJuRP7 (The Wife Between Us) by Sarah Pekkanen https://amzn.to/2OKqlQx (A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage & Betrayal) by Jen Waite https://amzn.to/2MkAqpI (Vox) by Christina Dalcher  https://amzn.to/2MQU5KJ (My Cousin Rachel) by Daphne du Maurier https://amzn.to/2ODH1sT (The House on Strand) by Daphne du Maurier https://amzn.to/2OuBNzG (Give Me Your Hand) by Meghan Abbot https://amzn.to/2OIMWNr (The Only Story) by Julian Barnes https://amzn.to/2Mi9Jmd (The Sense of An Ending) by Julian Barnes https://amzn.to/2Mt0Aqo (Hausfrau) by Jill Alexander Essbaum http://amzn.to/2GeIlig (Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure) by Amy Kaufman Support this podcast

We are pleased to have Author Patricia Harman back with us on DivaTalkRadio. Her last appearance was 4 years ago, almost to the day, and she returns to discuss the power of optimism and love to overcome the most trying circumstances and times. For many years, Patricia (Patsy) worked as a midwife, delivering babies and caring for women across the US and in rural communes. Her story is encouraging, empowering, and exciting.  Patsy has published in The Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health and The Journal of Sigma Theta Tau for Nursing Scholarship as well as alternative publications. She is a regular presenter at national midwifery conferences and her first novel, The Midwife of Hope River was awarded book of the year by the American College of Nurse Midwives in 2014.  About her latest book: The Reluctant Midwife The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy. Though she is happy to be back in Hope River, time and experience have tempered Becky’s cheerfulness-as tragedy has destroyed the vibrant spirit of her former employer Dr Isaac Blum, who has accompanied her. Patience too has changed. Married and expecting a baby herself, she is relying on Becky to keep the mothers of Hope River safe. But becoming a midwife and ushering precious new life into the world is not Becky’s only challenge. Her skills and courage will be tested when a calamitous forest fire blazes through a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. And she must find a way to bring Isaac back to life and rediscover the hope they both need to go on.

Who knew there was so much fascinating information that could be learned from a midwife? And one that also is a USA Today bestselling one too! Patricia Harman is our guest tonight on “Matters Of The Mind” with Dr. Peter Sacco, and we touch upon what a midwife does, what kind of training they can receive (as we found out there are various kinds of midwives), how much they can actually do, the various benefits and risks of home birthing, AND…finally, we talked about her historical novels about a reluctant midwife :-) Is midwifery on the upswing and becoming more popular Patricia is a wealth of knowledge, and supports both the pregnant mom and her partner, almost equally. Obviously, the pregnant mom requires more direct assistance, but can be a great help to a nervous, new father about what to do and NOT to do during the birth event. Good advice :-) Also, a midwife does not replace a partner during birthing, but becomes a director of sorts, an adviser, a coach. We also discussed how midwives can also potentially be pseudo psychologists, therapists, coaches and more during both the prenatal time, and post natal as well, as they typically spend more time with their patients than an OB/GYN does, due to various factors, none of which is poor care, but availability as well. To find out more about Patricia, please visit: http://www.patriciaharman.com/ visit Patricia on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PatsyHarman?fref=ts Hear Patricia on “Matters Of The Mind” with Dr. Peter Sacco at 8p EST on Wednesday by clicking the Listen Live button at the top right of the page, but if you miss it, it will be on demand Thursday, right here, or find us on iTunes podcast at https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/rtds-listen-up-talk/id910538503?mt=2 #midwife, #mentalhealth, #PatriciaHarman, #support, #author, #book, #memoir, #psychology, #psyche, #depression, #anxiety, #anxious, #nervous, #fatherhood, #midwifery, #novel, #podcast, #sacco, #motm

Dr. Beth’s (www.drbetherickson.com) first guest was Patricia Harman, whose first novel is The Midwife of Hope River. Set in 1930s Appalachia, it is the story of a single, independent woman who faces all manner of challenges in order to be there for mothers who are about to deliver. Her main character is strong and strong willed. The second … Read more about this episode...

Patricia Harman has spent over thirty years caring for women as a midwife, first as a lay-midwife, delivering babies in cabins and on communal farms in West Virginia, and later as a nurse-midwife in teaching hospitals and in a community hospital birthing center. She spent over a decade in the sixties and seventies in her wild youth living in rural communes in Washington, Connecticut and Minnesota. During the Vietnam years, she and her husband, Tom Harman, traveled the country, often hitch-hiking, as they looked for a place to settle. In 1974 they purchased a farm with a group of like-minded friends on top of a ridge in Roane County, West Virginia. Here on the commune, they built log houses, dug a pond, grew and preserved their own food and started the Growing Tree Natural Foods Cooperative. It was during this time that Patsy attended her first home birth, more or less by accident. “Some people are destined,” she has written. “I was staying at a woman friend’s commune when she went into labor and I ended up delivering my first baby.” Soon after, Harman traveled to Austin, Texas to train with a collective of home-birth midwives. When she returned, she became one of the founding members of The West Virginia Cooperative of Midwives. Her passion for caring for women and babies led her to become an RN as the first step in getting licensed as certified nurse midwife. In 1985, with her children, a yowling cat and her husband she traveled north, pulling a broken down trailer to begin her training at the University of Minnesota where she received her MSN in Nurse-Midwifery. Find out the rest of Patsy's story on the next DivaTalkRadio with Kelli Claypool and Gina Parris.

Carole Brody Fleet, author of Widows Wear Stilettos, was widowed at age 40 when her husband’s death from ALS turned her life upside down. We discussed unhelpful ways well-meaning people responded to her, as well as what to expect when grieving. Then I spoke with Patricia Harman about her memoir The Blue Cotton Gown, tales […] The post Relationships 101 – The Circle of Life: Death and Birth appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.